11/09/2007
The King Of Digging
Over at Ace Lounge, they've dug up a story about the real King of Digging.
Wonderful as he is, it ain't Muro; it's Bill Schurk, a librarian in Ohio who's built a collection with 700,000 recordings.
Step back.
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Kristin Tuttle, 36, and one of Schurk's three children, said there was always music in the house growing up and it was sometimes hard to get her dad to turn it off.
Tuttle still recalls sitting on hotel beds during vacations while her dad flipped through the phone book to find the closest Goodwill in town to hunt for used records.
Even now, Schurk loves going to the Goodwill and Salvation Army to try to find materials to add to his collection.